Jeanne Shaheen Tours Biodiesel And Chemical Engineering Lab At UNH
Tuesday July 08, 2008
Tuesday July 08, 2008
(Durham, NH) – Today, former Governor and current candidate for US Senate Jeanne Shaheen visited the University of New Hampshire biodiesel and chemical engineering lab to discuss the economic and environmental imperative to invest in scientific research and development. Yesterday, Shaheen gave a major policy address focused on the need to enhance the role of science in the 21st century in order to create new, good-paying jobs, compete in the innovation economy and move our country off of our dependence on foreign oil.
"The work that Dr. Ihab Farag and the researchers here at UNH are doing in biofuel innovation, particularly in algae-based biodiesel, will play a significant role in developing the kind of long-term alternative and renewable energy plan that we need to both preserve our environment and boost our economy," Shaheen said.
"Nowhere is investment more urgently needed than in the development of new energy technologies, and, as I saw here today, UNH is helping lead the way," Shaheen added. "It is clearly an economic imperative, but it is also a national security imperative – we must end our dependence on foreign oil – and an environmental imperative – we must reverse global warming."
Shaheen believes we need to take four crucial steps to reinvest in scientific innovation and ensure that the American economy can compete in the 21st century:
• First, return to making policy decisions based on science and not ideology;
• Second, increase federal research funding;
• Third, stimulate private sector investment in research and development; and
• Fourth, build a workforce up and down the economic ladder with the knowledge and skills to thrive in the innovation economy.
"The work that Dr. Ihab Farag and the researchers here at UNH are doing in biofuel innovation, particularly in algae-based biodiesel, will play a significant role in developing the kind of long-term alternative and renewable energy plan that we need to both preserve our environment and boost our economy," Shaheen said.
"Nowhere is investment more urgently needed than in the development of new energy technologies, and, as I saw here today, UNH is helping lead the way," Shaheen added. "It is clearly an economic imperative, but it is also a national security imperative – we must end our dependence on foreign oil – and an environmental imperative – we must reverse global warming."
Shaheen believes we need to take four crucial steps to reinvest in scientific innovation and ensure that the American economy can compete in the 21st century:
• First, return to making policy decisions based on science and not ideology;
• Second, increase federal research funding;
• Third, stimulate private sector investment in research and development; and
• Fourth, build a workforce up and down the economic ladder with the knowledge and skills to thrive in the innovation economy.
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